Speaking

Speaking and development

I speak and teach on how companies renew strategy when politics reshapes the field. A forty-minute keynote. A board briefing. The design and direction of a multi-day executive programme, in person or remote. I have built and taught programmes for corporations, governments, and business schools across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North America. The sessions draw on the research. Audiences are often senior. What matters is what the room does next.

From 2019 to 2023 I was Academic Director of the Irish Management Institute. I have designed and delivered MSc, MBA, and senior executive programmes across those regions. Inquiries for teaching and keynotes can come here; retained advisory runs through Rockbarra.

Thomas C. Lawton standing in a boardroom workshop, navy pinstripe, next to a flipchart on business models and breakout. Seated participants in the foreground.
Boardroom workshop. Flipchart: BM, new BMs, BM innovation, shape shifting, breakout, profitable growth.
Thomas C. Lawton, right, navy suit and open collar, standing with a colleague in a red blazer beside the Long Range Planning / Elsevier pull-up banner.
With Long Range Planning. Co-Editor-in-Chief since 2022.
Group of about twenty-five people in a tiered lecture hall, Thomas C. Lawton at the centre.
Executive cohort, lecture hall.